This Judgment establishes that the dominant social and economic classes in
Indian society still uphold caste and that in India broadly economic and
social strata are still related to caste and religious groups . This the
mindset of 'the Manuwadis 'for want of a better expression , the feudal
caste foundations of the class structure in India . I have decided that in
response to the expression ' Jehadis ' I shall use the expression Manuwadis or
Dharmayoddhas . The Judge delivering the judgment articulated the dominant
viewpoint . The KHAP PANCHAYATS reflect the overt viewpoint of what is the
dominant viewpoint of Indian society on caste , carefully concealed ,
subterranean and fascist in orientation towards weaker castes and religious
groups . You have to hear the comments on dalits and minorities by so called
Manuwadis who claim to be educated and the globe trotting segments of society ,
it is disgusting .Of course all this vanishes when matrimonial alliances are
made with the financially well heeled sections of dalits and minorities !!!!!!!
It is like in Karnataka it is State policy to attack minorities Christians
and Muslims , yet an autonomous University is speedily created for Azim Premji
.In 92 and 93 when there were pogroms against Muslims in Mumbai and in Surat
there were Congress governments in these States. Dalits have been attacked in
both Congres and BJP ruled states as well as when the RJD and Samajwadi were in
power. At the height of the Jaiprakash Movement the upper castes brutally
attacked Dalits huts in Gujarat on an anti-Reservation stir for Medical seats
though these Dalits could not afford education leave alone entry into Medical
Colleges .You have seen the Sachar Committee Report on West Bengal among other
States and the Rizwanoor tragedy .The Gujarat pogroms are very much in the news
. The fact is that is social , economic and political policy which makes for
caste stratification and consolidation and attacks on minorities . Caste and
Religion are utilized as a substitute for policy in India by more than one
political party .
So you can see the contradictions . The upper class Christians , Dalits and
Muslims are embraced in particular those in a position to expend financial
largesse . The globe trotting of these classes and their support for
GLOBALIZATION has improved neither there mindset nor their revivalism and
obscurantism . A former governor of the then bi-lingual state of Bombay Sri
Prakasa revealed the hypocrisy of religious groups opposing Cow slaughter in UP
and then at the dead of night the Hindu pujari selling the poor Cow who was
not required any more for agricultural operations to the Muslim butcher. The
reality is that irrespective of religious beliefs in Rural India the
agriculturist loves his farm animals , however it is economics which dictates
the disposal of cattle . The entire Leather industry is based on cattle and
the entrepreneurs and exporters are not in the majority Muslims or
Christians or Dalits .
The former Kings of Nepal before the abolition of the Monarchy used to come to
India to sacrifice very young Calfs as per ritual sacrifice as per ancient
Vedic custom before Hinduism adopted Buddhist and Jain practices of
vegetarianism and respect for all animal life . This used to happen when the
BJP government and the UPA and the Congress were in power as well as the UF
governments.
Niloufer Bhagwat
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From: Venugopalan K M
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Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:42 PM
Subject: [humanrights-movement:2411] Fwd: (Fwd) The Price Of Love By Bobby
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From: Venugopalan K M <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Subject: (Fwd) The Price Of Love By Bobby Kunhu
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"Sushma was the younger sister of this accused. It is a common experience
that when the younger sister commits something unusual and in this case it was
an intercaste, intercommunity marriage out of the secret love affair, then in
the society it is the elder brother who justifiably or otherwise is held
responsible for not stopping such affair. It is held as the family defeat. At
times, he has to suffer taunts and snide remarks even from the persons who
really have no business to poke their nose into the affairs of the family.
Dilip, therefore, must have been a prey of the so-called insult which his
younger sister had imposed upon his family and that must have been in his mind
for seven long months. It has come in the evidence that even if the marriage
was performed with Prabhu, there were efforts made by the family members of
Dilip to bring Sushma back. It has come in evidence that mother of Dilip tried
to lure back Sushma and so did her other married sister Kalpana who actually
went on to meet Sushma in her college. Those efforts paid no dividends. In
stead, Sushma kept on attending the college thereby openly mixing with the
society. This must have added insult to the injury felt by the family members
and more particularly, accused Dilip. Why did he wait for seven months? The
answer lies in the fact that Sushma became pregnant and thus reached a point of
no return. Till such time as she became pregnant, there might have been some
hopes in the family to win her back but once she became pregnant, even that
distant hope faded away and, in our opinion, that is the reason why this
ghastly episode took place. As if all this was not sufficient, Dilip himself
must have had the feeling of being cheated. It is not that Dilip did not know
Prabhu who was living only three houses away from his house. The secret love
affair which went on between Sushma and Prabhu for which Abhayraj acted as a
messenger must have raised the feeling of being cheated by Prabhu. This was
further aggravated because of the so-called higher status of a Brahmin family
on the part of Dilip and so- called non-Brahmin status of Prabhu. It has come
on record that Sushma was moved to Andheri at the house of Shashidharan and
this ought to have added as a spark which resulted in tornado. Dilip
undoubtedly was a young person not even having crossed his 25 years of life and
not having any criminal antecedent. If he became the victim of his wrong but
genuine caste considerations, it would not justify the death sentence. The
murders were the outcome of social issue like a marriage with a person of
so-called lower caste. However, a time has come when we have to consider these
social issues as relevant, while considering the death sentence in the
circumstances as these. The caste is a concept which grips a person before his
birth and does not leave him even after his death. The vicious grip of the
caste, community, religion, though totally unjustified, is a stark reality. The
psyche of the offender in the background of a social issue like an
inter-caste-community marriage, though wholly unjustified would have to be
considered in the peculiar circumstances of this case. "
This convoluted reasoning on one hand upholds the sanctity of death penalty
as the highest form of punishment and then goes on to assert that the above
crime is not heinous enough to attract the highest punishment. It reduces the
culpability of the offenders on the ground that caste and gender considerations
can mitigate the intensity of the crime. I thought the highest court of the
land would argue otherwise - that the casteist and patriarchal motives that
spurred the crime would aggravate the intensity of the crime.
You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a
nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the
foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
-AMBEDKAR
http://venukm.blogspot.com
http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur
http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com
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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a
nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the
foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
-AMBEDKAR
http://venukm.blogspot.com
http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur
http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com
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